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I have Windows Vista Home Premium. Problems with IE8

microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general

I recently bought a new laptop with Windows Vista. I setup automatic updates
for windows and it installled IE8. There are major bugs in this browser with
attachments. I was wondering why is Microsoft pushing this upgrade as an
automatic upgrade before resolving these major issues. I see many people
complaining about bugs related to attachments since Mar 2009 in IE8. I am
afraid to uninstall IE8 as it might render my laptop useless for a while. I
think it is very irresponsible from Microsoft to push such a software to all
customers through automatic updates. Please fix the bugs and provide an
update.

"Siva" <Siva @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:3EAD7BEF-4DA4-4450-9513-04CE64D4585A@microsoft.com...
> I recently bought a new laptop with Windows Vista. I setup automatic
updates
> for windows and it installled IE8. There are major bugs in this browser
with
> attachments. I was wondering why is Microsoft pushing this upgrade as an
> automatic upgrade before resolving these major issues. I see many people
> complaining about bugs related to attachments since Mar 2009 in IE8. I am
> afraid to uninstall IE8 as it might render my laptop useless for a while.
I
> think it is very irresponsible from Microsoft to push such a software to
all
> customers through automatic updates. Please fix the bugs and provide an
> update.

Is the computer fully patched at Windows Update yet? If KB972260 is
installed, you should not be encountering the "cannot open attachments" bug
to which you refer.
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Client - since 2002www.banthecheck.com

Siva wrote:
> I recently bought a new laptop with Windows Vista. I setup automatic
> updates
> for windows and it installled IE8. There are major bugs in this browser
> with
> attachments. I was wondering why is Microsoft pushing this upgrade as an
> automatic upgrade before resolving these major issues. I see many people
> complaining about bugs related to attachments since Mar 2009 in IE8. I am
> afraid to uninstall IE8 as it might render my laptop useless for a while.
> I
> think it is very irresponsible from Microsoft to push such a software to
> all
> customers through automatic updates. Please fix the bugs and provide an
> update.